EXCERPTS FROM POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1937

An act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. (Act of June 23, 1936, 49 Stat. 1827)

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Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Branch of Supply."

No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1937 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirtytwo inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinetively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95: Provided, That standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof.

SEC. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1937 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: Provided. That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee.

SEC. 3. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended

(a) To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost.

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completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.

(b) For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Governmentowned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on outpatient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection (b) shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments.

(c) For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400.

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RELIEF OF BRIDGEPORT IRRIGATION DISTRICT

An act for the relief of the Bridgeport Irrigation District. (Act of June 24, 1936, 49 Stat. 1897)

[SEC. 1. Amending contract of June 14, 1915-Granting permanent right to use of water from North Platte project-District to pay delinquent operation and maintenance.]-That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the Bridgeport Irrigation District, North Platte reclamation project, by which (a) the United States, in consideration of $23,286 heretofore paid under the contract of June 14, 1915, between the United States and the district, shall grant to the district a permanent right to the use of water from the North Platte Federal reclamation project under the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), as amended and supplemented, which permanent water right shall entitle the district to divert from the North Platte River a quantity of water equal to three-tenths part of the quantity of water for which provision is made in article 1 of said contract of June 14, 1915, such total quantity of water for diversion by the district to be delivered by the United States under a schedule of delivery reduced in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (b) the district shall agree to pay the United States the amount of $5,628.55; the operation and maintenance charges delinquent under said contract of June 14, 1915, for the years 1926 to 1935, both inclusive, upon the execution of said contract herein authorized; (c) the Secretary shall agree, upon the execution of said contract and its confirmation by the State courts, to cancel the judg ment entered on July 30, 1929, against the district and in favor of the United States; (d) the district shall agree to pay to the United States in advance of the delivery of water under said contract one one-hundredth part of such amounts as shall be fixed by the Secretary as operation and maintenance charges in connection with the irrigation works from which said water supply is made available by the United States, such charges to be payable for the year 1936 and thereafter with interest from the due date at the rate of 6 per centum per annum if not paid when due; (e) the Secretary shall be authorized to refuse the delivery of water under said contract to the district at any time when any installment in whole or in part (including any interest due thereon) of operation and maintenance charges shall not have been paid at the date provided in subdivision (d) hereof and shall remain unpaid at the date delivery of water is requested under said contract; and (f) the contract of June 14, 1915, shall otherwise remain in full force and effect.

RELIEF FOR THE ORLAND PROJECT

An act for the relief of the Orland reclamation project, California.

1936, 49 Stat. 1907)

(Act of June 24,

[SEC. 1. Repayment period Stony Gorge extended to Thirty-five years-Delinquent operation and maintenance to be added to cost of reservoir.]-That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to execute or authorize the execution of amendatory contracts with the individual water users of the Orland reclamation. project, California, by which (a) the time within which the cost of Stony Gorge Reservoir may be paid shall be thirty-five years in lieu of the seventeen years allowed for such payment under existing contracts, the said annual payments to be graduated as the said Secretary may prescribe, and (b) any construction or operation and maintenance charges due from the individual water users and delinquent as of the date of this Act, together with the accrued interest or penalties, may be added to their proportionate part of the cost of said reservoir.

SEC. 2. [Lands to be classified-Charges paid on permanently unproductive lands to be transferred to producing lands-Water rights shall be transferred.]-The said Secretary shall classify the lands of the Orland project and the owners of all lands found by the said Secretary to be permanently unproductive may, by supplemental agreement with the United States, be relieved of all liability for further operation and maintenance and construction charges on land so found to be permanently unproductive, and the credit for construction charges theretofore paid on such permanently unproductive lands may be transferred to other producing lands, as the owner of such permanently unproductive lands may designate in writing. The released water rights theretofore appurtenant to such permanently unproductive lands shall be transferred to other productive lands, as the said Secretary may designate and under such regulations as he may prescribe.

SEC. 3. [Operation and maintenance to be estimated by Secretary and collected in advance-Over payments to be adjusted by credits.]-After the plan prescribed in section 4 hereof becomes effective, all operation and maintenance charges shall be estimated annually by the Secretary and collected in advance on the Orland project on or before January 1 of each year for that calendar year, and no water shall be delivered to any water user failing to make such advance payment. Should the estimate by the Secretary of the amount of the operation and maintenance charges for any calendar year or the collections from water users for such year prove to be too small, the water users shall be required to make a further payment in advance of the additional amount then estimated to be sufficient to meet the remainder of the operation and maintenance cost for that year, and the delivery of water shall not be continued (a) to the project unless said additional amount is paid to the United States, or (b) to any water user failing to pay his proportionate share (as determined by the Secretary) of such additional operation and maintenance cost. Overpayments resulting from too large estimates for any year shall

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be adjusted by credits upon succeeding years after the amount of the overpayment is ascertained.

SEC. 4. [Operation and maintenance of water users executing supplemental contracts to be consolidated with cost of Stony Gorge ReservoirWater users not executing supplementary contracts not to benefit.]-For all water users executing supplementary contracts as permitted herein their proportionate share, as determined by the said Secretary, of the operation and maintenance charges for the first year in which this plan is made effective for the Orland project, by the execution of this agreement by at least 90 per centum of the water users of the project, as conclusively determined by the Secretary, shall be consolidated with the construction cost of the Stony Gorge Reservoir and paid when such construction cost is paid as herein permitted. Water users failing or refusing to execute such supplementary contracts shall not be accorded the benefit of this Act, nor shall they receive the benefit of any moratory construction charge legislation enacted in 1936 or thereafter unless otherwise specifically directed in such moratory legislation.

SEC. 5. [$35,000 authorized for classification and construction of canals and other necessary works.]-An appropriation of $35,000 from the reclamation fund for the Orland project is hereby authorized to enable the Secretary to make the land classification provided for in section 2 hereof and to construct canals and other works necessary to conduct to new project lands the water supply to be released hereunder from permanently unproductive lands. The primary construction charge of $55 per acre on such new lands shall be payable in installments as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 13, 1914 (38 Stat. 687). The supplemental construction charges for the new land shall be the same as for the old land, except that each acre of new land shall be required to pay in addition its proportionate part, as determined by the Secretary, of the construction cost of new work as authorized in this section. The supplemental construction charges for the new land shall be payable in installments over a period of thirty-five years, the first of such installments to be due one year after the due date of the last installment of the original construction charge on the new land. The supplemental construction charge installments for the new land shall be graduated in the same manner as for the old land as provided in section 1 hereof. The dates for the payment of the construction charges provided for in sections 1 and 5 hereof shall be as fixed by the said Secretary.

SEC. 6. [Secretary authorized to modify contract of April 3, 1909, if necessary.] The said Secretary is also authorized to enter into a contract with the Orland Unit Waters Users' Association, a corporation organized under the laws of California, modifying said corporation's contract of April 3, 1909, with the United States, if and so far as in the opinion of the said Secretary modification of said contract is requisite by reason of the execution of agreements between the United States and the individual stockholders of said corporation as authorized herein.

SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect.